POP3 retvied mails should be marked as read - how?

[Jorey Bump]

Georgy Goshin wrote, at 09/29/2007 06:12 AM:

> I need the Cyrus POP3 server marks all messages read by client but left on 
> server as read. How to do this?

POP3 does not mark messages as read. The client downloads the messages, 
then *it* tracks which messages are read. For obvious reasons, you don't 
want to mark messages as read merely because they have been downloaded. 
Tricks played with the deprecated LAST command are not reliable.

The feature you want can only be done by modifying the POP3 client to 
use IMAP to mark messages as read when messages left on the server are 
read by the POP3 client. I doubt you'll be able to convince any 
developer to make such a modification, since IMAP already provides this 
functionality.

IOW, switch to IMAP.